bots like googlebot will attempt to index anything linked to by your pages (well, they can sometimes also find unlinked pages if you're using the google toolbar for instance and haven't got the privacy options checked)
they only way to stop this is to ask nicely: robots.txt is your friend (most bots honour it) http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Humphris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 October 2002 10:09 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Locking error on DB > > > I get this sometimes on my Production server but it's just > the GoogleBot or some other search robot scanning through my > links and attempting to run a CF template. > > This raises a question actually. Does anyone know much about > web robots and how they work? If I have a cfm page linked to > from an html page, will the robot attempt to run this - I > guess it will. So, a best practice would be to make sure that > no potentially damaging script is exposed to web-bots. Am I right? > > Douglas > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Giles Roadnight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 October 2002 08:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ cf-dev ] Locking error on DB > > > Morning all > > I got this error sent to me last night at 5 in the morning. > > Error Executing Database Query. [MERANT][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC > Socket][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Could not update; > currently locked by user 'admin' on machine 'THISTLE'. <br>The error > occurred on line 42. > > Now I do work hard but believe it or not I was not up at 5 in the > morning with this DB open on my sever. Is there anything else that can > cause this? > > Thanks > > > Giles Roadnight > http://giles.roadnight.name > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
